
Caption
Pine needle soda with ice, lemon, and herbs
Photo Credit
Olga Kri
Ingredients
2 cup pine needles, woody ends removed
4 tablespoons sugar
2½ cups water (use bottled or filtered water)
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Is botulism a risk with this recipe?
Thank you for the informative message on white pine. Questions: Can you harvest the new pine tips and use in all these applications; tea, bath, vinegar? Would the amount used be different for say tea, ‘Sprite’ given these new tips?
I have Loblolly Pines growing in my yard. Texas foragers use Loblolly needles for tea. I am going to try them in this "soda" recipe, unless there is a reason why I shouldn't. It looks very refreshing. Thanks.
Can you make the soda during the winter time? Will the wild yeast be alive? I want to have my Plant Science Class try to make this. Thank you!
Yes! Pine needles can be gathered all year! The new growth in the spring can be less tough, but we harvest pine needles all year long, even in the wintertime, for a delicious tea. See this page as well for more information about foraging and identifying white pine.
Will blue spruce work?
White needle pine is not in the south. The long leaf is an endangered species and is native here, but rarely seen. However, we planted one on our property "doing our part" and due to its health benefits. Will this recipe work with the long leaf pine?
Longleaf pine is not an endangered species. It is widely planted (thanks to many government programs spending your tax dollars - or those of your children and grandchildren - to subsidize it
Not sure what part of the South you’re in, but I’m in TN and white pines are not hard to find here!
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